Dennis Tate

Emeritus Professor of German Studies at Bath University, UK. Has
published widely on East German literature before German
Unification, especially autobiographical writing and competing
memory narratives. Author of The East German Novel (1984);
Franz Fuehmann: Innovation and Authenticity (1995);
Shifting Perspectives: East German Autobiographical Narratives
before and after the End of the GDR (2007). Edited volumes
include Dislocation and Reorientation: Exile, Division and the
End of Communism in German Culture and Politics (2009, with
Pol O Dochartaigh and Axel Goodbody); German Life Writing in
the Twentieth Century (2010, with Birgit Dahlke and Roger
Woods); Twenty Years On: Competing Memories of the GDR in
Postunification German Culture (2011, with Renate Rechtien).
Wrote the overview article on East German autobiographical writing
for Rereading East Germany: The Literature and Film of the
GDR, ed.Karen Leeder (2015).